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...Wayne Modest This essay introduces a special section on Otto and Hermine Huiswoud, Black Caribbean internationalists whose anticolonial and Communist organizing spanned several decades and continents, from Suriname and the United States to the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, and to Russia. Otto...

... and class? Valdés’s book partly addresses this, but it also vacillates between a cursory critique of Schomburg’s performance of self as a masculine rescuer of a feminized black past and a reconsecration of Schomburg as a respectable patriarch of black history. 23 In a recent essay, Afro-Brazilian...

...Jovan Scott Lewis In this response essay, the author returns to his arguments in Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020) to further consider the limits of repair as advanced by the book’s crew of Jamaican lottery scammers. The author reconsiders some of the arguments to examine...

... reason for the war. He lists the material conditions that would better black life in South Africa, such as unlimited and equal access to education; equal access to public transportation and institutions as well as points of purchase; and religious equality and respect, whereby European missionaries treat...

... Black women’s thought and organizing as constitutive of these respective ideas and movements during the mid-twentieth century. While certain Black francophone women’s published texts have received significant scholarly attention, including Césaire’s essays in Tropiques and Nardal’s body of work in La...

...” of black and colored men in the Caribbean delivered by the “Coloured” journalist William Galway Donovan. But Thomas first criticized its audience. There ought, he complained, to have been a larger audience, and there ought to have been respectable Afro-Caribbean women. The only woman was the (white...

... monograph Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the Politics of Caribbean Poetry (2008). The positions Smith and Breiner ascribe to Thomas and Roach, respectively, articulate an enduring Caribbean contradiction between an aspiration to erudition on the one hand and the urgency of self-representation on the other...

... offers a liminal, fleeting opportunity for Black digital agency between these two states. [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2024 modernity Black Twitter Black digital libidinal economy Black respectability Black optimism I am often online; it’s where my people stay...

... published in the anglophone Caribbean in the 1870s (83). He, like Trinidad’s Thomas, was—let’s call him—a Black man whose education allowed him to walk the tightrope between Black respectability and the “taint” of Black language. Or what was assigned and then essentialized as Black. Stanford’s Anansi...

... everywhere raises negrophobia and negrophilia. 12 The ungenderings of black children, then, are partly what this essay speaks generally about, with more particularities exposed with respect to the ungenderings of black girls. In many mainstream feminist critiques, sexualization is a form...

... . Look what they were made to do . In a historical period when lynchings enforced white supremacy and policed black looking and social advancement, the Talented Tenth sought to assert black respectability as a counter-weight to presumed black pathology. In a move familiar to us by now...

... FFrancisrancis esteem and respect His was a response to the classic double-voiced discourse of impe- rialism Selective criticism thus facilitated an integrationist vision that allowed Scholes to promote the construction of a black world that existed on equal footing with the white world, a world in which...

...-century Caribbean public, images that aff ected, and continue to aff ect, Small Axe 13, March 2003: pp. 1–16 ISSN 0799-0537 Caribbean women of all ethnicities into the twenty-fi rst century. On the one hand, black women are represented as icons of respectability, virtuous women who must...

... (paperback) Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 Scammers Yard Jovan Scott Lewis reparations respectability performativity writerly surprise Jovan Scott Lewis’s Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica is both an entertaining and a scholarly read. 1 It has the feel...

... to silencings and ghostings differ—as each one adopts a different degree of respectability, for instance—Ramírez remains committed to showing the plurality of Afro-Dominicanness and the dangers of homogenizing Afro-Dominican women’s experiences. The scripting of the racial identification of black women...

... to be transformed into a respectable peasantry and, eventually, a politically moderate citizenry, through dili- gent and “enlightened” middle-class leadership. / e second black nationalist theme is grounded in my own ethnographic research in a community in East Rural St. Andrew...

..., or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today.”5 The notion of respectability inscribed in the colonial parlor resonated with an emergent aspirant black middle class in the West Indies and working class in Britain in creating their front rooms. In his book Home Cooking...

... English nationalism and Caribbean Creoleness. Wide Sargasso Sea and Cambridge both describe sociocultural transformation with respect to the same two categories, “white niggers” and “black Englishmen”; however, Rhys’s novel portrays this crossing as a rhetorical exercise...

... weeping and mourning the “snatching” of one of their “shepherds” by “Satan’s net.” 3 The incident thrust the church, respectability, black girlhood, poverty, public discourses of sexuality, and rape culture into the national spotlight. As the case captured public attention, a group of women sought...

..., Aijaz Ahmad, Talal Asad, David Harris, Abdul JanMohamed, Kaplan and Kelly, Neil Lazarus, Meaghan Morris, Sherry Ortner, Benita Parry and Gayatri Spivak. 4. Paul Gilroy, Th e Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993...